I’m pretty sure she still writes books.

Though she’s been writing some Netflix animated series lately.

Your concerns are valid - Every time an instance goes under you’ll always have some people that will just leave entirely. Though you would have to have a lot of instances burned to see Lemmy as a whole basically stop happening.

As for long term, that’s difficult to predict, but you can say that about any site.

I think this will be the nature of the fediverse, with instances coming and going. I don’t think you can rely on volunteer labor and donations to keep things running indefinitely.

I also don’t think this is inherently a bad thing, just a quirk of the design.

I got about a dozen YouTubers and streamers that fit in this box.

It seems to be inevitable. They either stop posting or streaming, or they reveal themselves to be kind of messed up.

That is partially what inspired me to post this. A lot of business advice I have gotten has been staggeringly bad.

I realize most people have worked at a business and should know a thing or two about how it works, but I don’t think many consider the huge differences between their workplace and how a small business operates.

Here’s a weird one:

Don’t offer advice unless its something you have some experience with.

Googling someone’s issues and giving them a boilerplate answer from the first thing you find isn’t helpful and can actually be a hinderance more than anything.

Yeah, probably.

Because of many factors, we’re seeing an erosion of the ‘third place’ which has been somewhat replaced or supplemented by the internet.

But now the internet is turning into a watchdog which desperately wants to monetize you, or direct you towards something that it can monetize.

Its hard to say while we’re in the middle of it, but I’m going to assume fifty years from now people will say we took privacy for granted and didn’t realize how influential algorithms really were.

I don’t know if it would ruin the entire movie per se but if you’ve heard Darth Vader (David Prowse’s voice) pre James Earl Jones dub, its definitely a character ruiner.

I can’t think of many movies where voice work is detrimental to everything except documentaries, but I know some games have annoying protagonists and it absolutely harms the whole experience.

You’re at +1 now for me.

I’ve played enough RimWorld to know I wouldn’t be totally ok in any of these scenarios.

All it takes is a random bug bite or infection and home meds just won’t be enough.

I mean it just goes down to whoever uses it first, then all the others effectively never had a time machine.

This sounds dumb as all heck but a Fediverse equivalent of LinkedIn. Not some corporate hellscape, but something geared towards semi-pro or hobbyists who are looking for collaborative projects. It would serve as a portfolio and a way to group up and network.

So for example, you’re a YouTuber who is looking for an editor. Its not career pay but its a paid side gig. Or maybe you’re an audio guy and are looking to get into the film industry, and want to see if there are local indie films looking for your skills.

There are ‘services’ for these but they’re either adapted from something else (like Reddit or Facebook) or they have some aggressive middleman monetization. And many basically require you to host your portfolio elsewhere, which is sometimes funky to run your own hosting.

How are you going to acquire the voices? By recording other media? Most media has some sort of license attached, and recording it (for movies and shows or music) isn’t usually something allowed.

I know a guy that took a security camera and hooked it up to watch his lawnmower, which is set to automatically mow a certain area as guided by the camera.

So he just hits a button and watches his lawn get mowed.

I would likely have different thoughts on it if I (and others) was able to consent my data into training it, or consent to even have it rather than it just showing up in an unwanted update.

There’s a story about a man (Hennig Brand) who figured since pee was yellow, and gold was yellow, maybe if you boil urine down enough you can get the ‘gold’ out of it and make lots of stacks of cash.

Unfortunately this didn’t work, but it did yield a process to create phosphorous which ended up being a valuable chemical process, of which he sold to other alchemists at the time (Who in turn tried to figure out how to turn the new found phosphorous to gold).

As I recall, Will Wright’s inspiration for the Sims was watching his daughter play with dolls in a dollhouse.

When viewed through that lens, yeah I can see how that formula works.

Patience.

I’ve taken up several hobbies (game dev, gardening, woodworking, etc) where results aren’t always well seen until weeks, months or even years after starting a project.

Everyone seems too interested in getting results fast and now, and the world seems all too keen to sell you something to try and make that happen.

I don’t keep checking to see if I’m being followed, but assessing people nearby seems to be practical awareness.

Its probably some baked in survival skills.